Fixed-width text and WordPress on iPhone/iPad

A quick note to cheer that I fixed an annoyance with my blog rendering on the iPhone/iPad platforms.

Text in code blocks or preformatted (i.e. fixed width) came out huge on the iPhone and iPad making things look ridiculous. It seems the WordPress Twenty-Ten theme (or derivatives of it) explicitly super-size fixed width text on these platforms.

The fix is to edit style.css in whatever theme you’re using and comment out the styling as below: